[2] A scale of payments, graduated according to the heinousness of the crime, was fixed by laws, which further settled who could exact the blood-money, and who were entitled to share it.
Some acts, such as killing someone in a church or while asleep, or within the precincts of the royal palace, and corporal infamy[3] (rape) were "bot-less".
[5] Under the Korean legal system, it is common for those accused of both minor (such as defamation) and serious crimes to offer blood money (habuigeum, 합의금(合意金)) to the victim.
[6] In the Christian Bible, the term is used to refer to the thirty pieces of silver Judas Iscariot received, in exchange for revealing the identity of Jesus Christ to the forces sent by the Pharisees and/or the Sanhedrin.
After the crucifixion of Christ, Judas returned the payment to the chief priests, who "took the silver pieces and said, 'It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.